Comments on: The Top 7 Horror Movies for Conservatives

By: Joseph Veca

Joseph Veca — Tue, 03 May 2011 02:48:04 +0000

Just a note here. Those of us who have read and love Robert A. Heinlein's 'Starship Troopers' know that the 1997 movie of the same name was a hate crime of major proportions. The only relationship between the book and the movie are the names in the book.

By: LSDrakeford

LSDrakeford — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 21:55:53 +0000

Is this article for real? Conservative horror movies? i believe that notion is just in the mind of the authorette. She is just using a theory to make catty swipes at conservatives. How boring. The next thing I will read on this site is how conservatives oppress homosexuals. The new n—–s. Typical liberals. Blackontheright

By: Federal43

Federal43 — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:27:58 +0000

If I may say so, which I can, Rooseveltian Liberalism, which by the way defeated Facism and the Communist threat. It's ideals are not making things more equal at the expense of others, but rather this: If you make the mass of people properous, their prosperity will find its way up onto those who rest on them. The economic elites will do well if more people can afford their products, by making the world more equal, you have greater economic growth. In 1965 GNP grew by 6.5%, in our day and age, like between 2002-2007, it barely got past 2%. Liberalism worked. It is time that that fact is recognized.

By: tagalog

tagalog — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:37:07 +0000

The John Carpenter version of The Thing, though more faithful to the John W. Campbell science fiction story ("Who Goes There?"), is by far the inferior movie of the two.

By: tagalog

tagalog — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:32:51 +0000

The "soldier" (actually airman) who responds "Yeah, that cheered everybody up" to Dr. Carrington in Howard Hawks' The Thing was played by the great Dewey Martin, who, like Jack Davis and some other actors of the 1950s, has been unjustly neglected.

I also enjoy the repartee when one of the scientists says something like, "Maybe it can read minds," and one of the non-scientists responds with words to the effect of "It's gonna get real mad when it gets to me."

It's incorrect to say that conservatives want limits to the pursuit of human knowledge, but it's close enough to be uncomfortable. The true conservative approach to the pursuit of human knowledge is that the pursuit of human knowledge should serve the goal of making humanity more virtuous. This was the purpose of natural philosophy as taught by the classical Greek philosophers whose ideas formed the basis of Western culture. Knowledge that does not serve that goal is of debatable value, and the consequences of applying such knowledge to the real world may be disastrous. The movie Frankenstein skirts around this issue, but doesn't deal with it directly except in the most simplistic sense. The M.W. Shelley novel is correctly noted to be about the romantic vs. the conventional and becomes quite philosophical after the creature learns to speak.

By: tanstaafl

tanstaafl — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:45:43 +0000

Don't forget "Fahrenheit 451". They burn books in the film. Books I have treasured and read. It is the most frightening scene I have seen.

By: Mysoncool

Mysoncool — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:47:42 +0000

You can't forget David Cronenberg's "The Brood". It's the darkest of all possible satires of the 70's navel gazing self-help crowd and a comment on the then-relatively-new divorce culture's destructive impact on children, which is its overarching theme. Plus, it's legitimately scary, has some truly creepy moments, and is not for the squeamish!

By: revnantdream

revnantdream — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 02:56:19 +0000

Nice article. Had a lot of good laughs. Perfect for this time of year.

By: KathyShaidle

KathyShaidle — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:17:30 +0000

Thank you Molly. Any NewsReal reader who rents the original 1950s version of The Thing won't regret it. There is literally never a dull moment. Watching a team of smart, competent men and women handle a seemingly impossible problem, fail then keep trying — it is inspirational in its own way. Plus lots of action and great dialogue.

By: Tar_n_Feathers

Tar_n_Feathers — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 05:21:14 +0000

"The Thing" remains a sci-fi classic. Low-budget cinema at its best. And let's give some credit to the monster, handily played by James Arness of "Gunsmoke" fame.

By: MollyBrazen

MollyBrazen — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:32:56 +0000

Thanks Kathy. I wasn't really interested in horror movies, but I read your article anyway and found a surprisingly insightful (if slightly Hunter S. Thompson-esque) cultural history of the last half century.

Now maybe I'll rent The Thing…

By: RobertPinkerton

RobertPinkerton — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 20:55:09 +0000

Another omission -- although this is hardly box-office fare, indeed rather esoteric -- is the training film produced for the Soviet GRU as an initiation document. Described in the Prologue of Viktor Suvorov's Inside the Aquaruim, the film is the execution of Oleg Penkovskii, 17 May 1963 -- alive and fuly conscious, feep first into the furnace of Moscow City Crematorium.